6 Best Meal Delivery Services for Digestive Disorders, Tested and Reviewed by a Nutritionist (2025)

Trying out a meal delivery service is practically a rite of passage for busy Americans—in one 2021 survey, nearly half (48%) of respondents reported trying a meal kit in the past year. But if you live with a digestive health condition, you might have legitimate concerns about whether mail-delivered kits will be able to accommodate your dietary needs. After all, having a gastrointestinal (GI) disorder like irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) or an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) like Crohn’s or ulcerative colitis (UC) often means following a diet that’s outside the box—in this case, the cardboard one that arrives on your doorstep.

Fortunately, the meal delivery market has come a long way since the days of set-in-stone menus and minimal wiggle room for special requests. Now, a slew of services are making home-delivered meals viable options for people with GI conditions. Better yet, many are pretty darn delicious.

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Our top picks

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The best meal delivery services for digestive disorders

As a nutritionist I’m always looking for easy meals to recommend to folks with digestive health conditions. After researching and personally sampling nearly a dozen delivery options, I found six genuinely gut-friendly.

Best for variety: Epicured

If you’ve bemoaned that meal delivery services don’t cater to your GI needs, bemoan no more! Epicured is one of the only services that makes meals specifically for people with digestive health conditions. Here, menu filters abound, so you can find options that are low-FODMAP, gluten-free, vegetarian, pescatarian, allergen-free, and more. According to Yi Min Teo, MS, RD, CNSC, an IBD- and GI-specialized dietitian based in Los Angeles, this level of flexibility is ideal for symptom management. “The ability to modify ingredients based on your tolerance and disease process is key,” she says.

Besides the diversity of filters, Epicured’s meals themselves have plenty of variety too. A couple of my favorites included a chicken tikka masala and crab cakes with potatoes and kale.

Be prepared to shell out a pretty penny for Epicured’s meals, though. Even with a first-time discount, I paid nearly $50 for a starter pack of three meals ($16.67 per meal). I had frozen my meals (not something they suggest doing), and heating instructions from frozen weren’t included. So I found myself winging it by microwaving meals in 30-second intervals until they were warm enough. Even so, the taste and freshness still delivered.

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Best for families: Hungryroot

Gut health conditions can sap your strength, leaving little energy for meal-making. If you’d like something home-cooked but don’t have the energy to get super busy in the kitchen, check out Hungryroot. Easy-to-follow instructions and preportioned ingredients make quick work of breakfast, lunch, or dinner. On a busy weeknight, for example, I whipped up a tasty fettuccine and marinara dish, using quick-cooking pasta, deveined shrimp, and jarred sauce. Voilà! A homemade meal for the entire family was on the table in 15 minutes. (While I opted for recipe-based meals, Hungryroot also offers premade microwavable meals for even more convenience.)

That said, not every Hungryroot meal is totally nutritionally balanced. To round out my pasta dinner (and a few other meals on this plan), I felt the need to add a side salad for extra nutrients and fiber. According to Teo, this could be a drawback for people with digestive disorders. “Balanced meal composition consisting of all food groups—carbohydrates, protein, fats, fiber, vitamins, and minerals—is a factor to look for,” she says.

Hungryroot does offer numerous menu filters to ensure your deliveries meet your dietary needs, however. Folks with IBS can select a low-FODMAP or high-fiber option, while those with IBD might prefer to select the gut-friendly or anti-inflammatory filters. If you’re sensitive to specific ingredients, you can opt out of those too.

Read Bon Appétit's full Hungryroot review here.

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Best for foodies: CookUnity

CookUnity focuses on real food from real cooks, calling itself “America’s largest chef collective.” More than 100 chefs contribute to its meals. (As a fun feature, each meal arrives printed with the name and photo of the person who created it.) With all the cooks in the kitchen, CookUnity’s culinary variety is second to none. I sampled restaurant-style meals like pan-fried Cajun salmon and Middle Eastern vegan chili with tahini and green sabzi rice. For foodies, the global flavors are a definite draw.

Then again, if a digestive health condition often narrows your window of flavors, CookUnity has you covered. You can specify food allergies or intolerances and nix any ingredients you don’t want. “This can help manage symptoms, especially while on certain dietary therapies and food reintroduction phases like a low-FODMAP diet,” Teo says. The ability to choose gluten-free, dairy-free, or low-spice meals can also help manage flares in people with IBD, IBS, or acid reflux, she adds.

The one aspect of CookUnity I wasn’t crazy about: its minimal nutrition information. Each meal lists only calories, protein, fat, and carbohydrates. There’s no data on sodium, saturated fat, or micronutrients, all of which can be important for people with GI health issues (and, let’s be honest, everyone else too). And some meals are quite high-calorie. The grilled chicken kale Caesar, which I would have expected to be somewhat wholesome, had a surprising 740 calories and 53 grams of fat (66% of the daily value). Since some people with digestive disorders like UC can experience flares from eating too much fat, this is another drawback to keep in mind.